by sjs | Jun 5, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Across America, there are serious gaps between the health care that people should receive and the care they actually receive,†said the president/CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in announcing a $300 million community-focused program to improve...
by sjs | Jun 2, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
50 economists examine ten of the world’s biggest challenges and place as Number 1 because of its “immediate and important consequences for improving the wellbeing of poor people around the world,” to combat malnutrition in the 140 million children in...
by sjs | Jun 2, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Microplace, an online brokerage service that enables people to make investments that earn a return while empowering the poor to work their way out of poverty, has launched its “Small Change. Big Change” campaign, designed to turn spare nickels and quarters...
by sjs | May 30, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In Africa, poverty is being fought village by village, using the Millennium Villages approach, which attacks poverty across a wide front. After only two years, the communities involved are already showing real results. The Millennium Villages Project grew out of...
by sjs | May 25, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
“The new idea is to lift people out of poverty by giving them tools to improve their incomes. Their lives are changed not by handout aid, but through design,” says the curator of a new exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The exhibit is...
